The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences between the genres War and Crime and how they portray the protagonist and the antagonist. Also how concentrated ownership can cause consequences for the content in movies from our chosen genres. This is examined by top 50 movies within the two genres from IMDb's Box Office listing. The theoretical framework used is Edward Saids description of orientalism. For the nationalism segment a book from Steve Grosby and articles from Kathy Warners and Jason Dittmer is used. Olof Peterssons book Opinionsbildning and an article from Matthew Alford is used for the propaganda segment. The paper is written based on a quantitative content analysis where we analyzed the US Box Office top 50 movies in the war and Crime genre. We chose quantitative content analysis because we wanted to work with objective answers and get visual statistics. We have used a convenience sample when sampling our movies. To code the chosen movies we created our own code sheet and codebook. We used the program SPSS to get different charts, which we drew results and statistics from. The results from our analysis with the help from our theoretical framework helped bring answers to our questions of issues. The results show that the market is ownership concentrated with six production companies responsible for the majority. The protagonist for the genre war is mostly an military American man while the antagonist is from Germany or the Middle East and not personified deeper. For Crime the protagonist for the majority is an American man within the police profession or a criminal. The antagonists are criminal American men. A conclusion from the results is that American production companies make movies for Americans with content focusing on Americans. This strengthens the nationalism within the country simultaneously as it clarifies the enemy by creating a strong “us and them”-feeling. Movies can be used as a channel for propaganda and to affect people's views and values. The concentrated ownership can create difficulties for smaller production companies to compete and spread their message.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-83591 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Svensson, Johanna, Lindström, Emma, Rakipovic, Vasvia |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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